Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Time and space are awash here.

Failure and Success are two sides of the same coin. One does not exist without the other.

Grown tall, like a ruddy weed, on his food.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.

There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for the Word of God, and I praise Him for the privilege of still being able to memorize.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.